I must admit I was surprised when I learned that Microsoft SQL Server would be available in Linux. They've been pushing the open source initiative hard, but I didn't expect something this big. Oh yeah, Visual Studio is now available for Mac as well. I just saw a pig flying by. While MS-SQL is not open source they have made it available to run on open source platforms such as Linux and OSX, which I can imagine took a ton of work. So I decided to take advantage of this new option and try it out. It works great! It took 5 minutes to install. Here's how you can do it too. Note that you will need a ...

Before I wrote about my angular2 experience. I currently have done a couple of A2 apps EveMarket And a static site:techonsiteAngular 2 and rxjs observables rocks the casbah!But now I have been researching ...

I’m installing a product that runs a service under a pre-determined logon account. I needed to rename the created account afterwards to get round a conflict somewhere else. Sounds simple – just modify ...

Having waited until the last minute for a number of reasons I finally bit the bullet and updated my main Windows 7 x64 machine to Windows 10. It went smoothly but took several hours. Now it’s settled down ...

Wow, where has the past year and a half gone? This post is just dusting things off around here. I am about to need a public place to post some things. I needed to update my DNS to a new host. I also needed ...

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Team' By Lyssa Adkins Coaching at the Very Beginning The coaching intervention at the beginning of the teams first sprint together sets the tone for much of what follows ...

Please do me a favor and read this on my Gooroo site. (if I get enough hits, I get a payment) Thanks! I recently received the status report of a penetration test of my ASP.Net Core 1.0 MVC site done by ...

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Let Your Style Change How long has it taken you to master tai chi? - I don’t know yet, im still practicing. How did it take you to become a master ...

I just wanted to point out that if your Chef clients are running low on disk resources, it could be worth checking your chef/cache/backup directory for temporary artefacts. I was recently looking at a ...

The next version of DAX Studio has just been released. You can download this release and read the release notes here Some of the highlights of this release are: Toggle Delimiters A toggle delimiter feature ...

Book Notes from 'Coaching Agile Teams' By Lyssa Adkins Will You Respond Intelligently? EQ - Emotional Intelligence Quotient. The more skilled you become at mastering yourself - the more self-organized ...

Book Notes from Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa AdkinsExpect High Performance Teams often get the basics of agile running within the first few sprints. Need to see different signposts and landmarks along ...

Book Notes From: "Coaching Agile Teams" By Lyssa AdkinsWill I Be a Good Coach? Nothing prepared me for the power and simplicity of agile done well. Project management was serious business - project managers ...

Book Notes From: 'Scrum: Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Here's What You Do Tomorrow First step - put together a backlog and a team Think about the vision you have for your product ...

Book Notes From: 'Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Observe, Orient, Decide, Act Designed Scrum to allow a Product Owner to make decisions quickly, based on real-time ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum: Doing Twice the work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Pop the Happy Bubble One thing that happiness is not - is complacency. Christa Foley - at Zappos : I love coming to work, ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff SutherlandHappiness People want to be happy Thomas Jefferson - Pursuits do seem to be what make us happy Mountain climbers seem unable ...

Book Notes: 'Scrum The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff Sutherland Size Does Matter, but Only Relatively You have your list, you have prioritized the list Now you have to figure out ...

Previously we started creating our seed project then we created our first AngularJS2 app, on this post we will try to play with AngularJs2’s Attribute Directives. Basically, Attribute Directives allows ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the work in half the time' By Jeff SutherlandWorking Too Hard Makes More Work Jon Katzenbach - head of Katzenbach Center at Booz Allen Hamilton Work too ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff SutherlandTime and Time Again What makes Scrum so revolutionary. You get more stuff done - faster and cheaper - twice ...

Full disclosure here: I don’t like ORMs. If you’re building an enormous enterprise project, you should absolutely use an ORM. If you have data you really care about and a complex, monstrous system using ...

Today’s topic/rant is not a technical topic but very relevant to techies in particular. Someone wise that I respect, one said “You have a finite number of keystrokes left in your hands before you die” ...

Book Notes From 'Scrum - Getting Twice the work done in half the time' By Jeff SutherlandDon’t Hate the Player - Hate the Game Low team morale, cohesion, and productivity are based on a fundamental misunderstanding ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum The Art Of Doing Twice the Work in Half The Time' - By Jeff SutherlandScrum at War One of the most dramatic examples of cross-functional teams - military / Special Forces Each team ...

So let's say that you were asked by your organization to make an intranet "database" using access, and that because of organizational policies, etc. there is no option to have a real webserver like a LAMP/NGINX/IIS ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum, The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time' By Jeff SutherlandTeams Teams are what get things done in the world of work. Teams are what make the world go round - and they're ...

Book notes from: Scrum, the Art of doing twice the work in half the time. By Jeff Sutherland Whenever people are involved in a complex, creative effort - traditional management methods simply break apart. ...

Book Notes from 'Scrum The art of doing twice the work in half the time' - By Jeff SutherlandFBI - Software development story After 9/11 turned into one of the biggest software debacles of all time. CIO ...

In this post, I will explain how you can easily simulate dozens (or hundreds) of IoT devices to test your Azure IoT Hub configuration. Simulating IoT devices with dynamic data can help you test your Azure ...

It Takes an Ecosystem to Build a Production Application - Wild Card Track Docker has made containerizing applications easy. This ease of use has given birth to a vibrant ecosystem of innovation. As more ...

Intro to Application Pools in IIS Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they’re created for you automatically many times Administrators don’t give them a second thought. But understanding ...

Book notes from Essentialism by Greg McKeownSleep No employee is expected to drive to work after a red eye flight Come in late after staying late at work the night before. Companies and leaders like these ...

Book notes from Essentialism by Greg McKeownPlay Embrace the Wisdom of Your Inner Child When we get older something happens. We are introduced to the idea that play is trivial. Play is a waste of time, ...

Book notes from 'Essentialism' by Greg McKeownExploring Essentialist will commit and go big Five practices for Exploring what is essential 'Of course I'd love to be able to set aside time on the calendar ...

Notes from Greg McKeown's book 'essentialism' Discern The Unimportance of Practically Everything 'Most of what exists in the university - our actions, and all other forces, resources and ideas - has very ...

Although not technical, this is a great book for managers and developers as they consider productivity of a group and themselves. In business we all want a successful outcome, but what are the best ways ...

These are my notes for the book 'Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. The bulleted items are extracted from the book - and anything I may throw in has been italicized. The wisdom ...

Here's some interview questions I've been asked / seen: Name three features introduced with C# 3.0 How does ASP.NET MVC's Anti Forgery Token work? How can you update web.config programatically? The last ...

Earlier this month Norm Murrin and I gave a talk at the Chicago Coder Conference. We learned a lot about how the offerings of each company compares during our preparation. In the end we come to the conclusion ...

Since I cannot post anymore at GWB I was forced to switch to Wordpress. See you at https://aloiskraus.wordpres... really dislike the small width of Wordpress which makes it nearly impossible to post ...

Starting to play with technologies that are not yet released is a pain in the a#$%. First, because big changes can occur thus breaking our proof of concept projects, Second, looking for a good resource ...

Neo4j 3.0 introduced the concept of Stored Procedures, now, whilst they’re not the same as SQL based SPs, they work – and well – it’s what we’ve got! Neo4jClient doesn’t currently have any native way to ...

On Part 1 we started preparing the stage. If you still haven't done so, please visit http://wblo.gs/lRz On this Part of the series we will start building our first AngularJS2 on ASP.Net Core using Typescript. ...

Our production Worktile Pro was built based on Node.js 0.12 when we firstly developed and at that moment we tried our best to prevent our code from the callback hell.With Node.js v6 we can use iterator ...